The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

So . . . I am the someone you were speaking of earlier?Yes. You're my someone.You're my someone, too.

Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?""No sir.""That bothers me.

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.

Failure shows us the way - by showing us what isn't the way.

It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range.

The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.